ArduPilot / ArduPilot/apm_planner

Some metrics can be hard to read or are cut off

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Description

On the quick screen and status screen I've noticed some metrics can be very hard to read due to their colours (light grey on ever so slightly darker grey) or are cut off due to the title being too long.

![colours](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/130368/12869100/2fe7b950-cd61-11e5-83bb-447a1d4f5e56.png)
![overflow](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/130368/12869102/3614ce76-cd61-11e5-8566-7e594efd6979.png)
![cuttoff](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/130368/12869103/3642dece-cd61-11e5-87c8-9eb029e4bf35.png)

I thought perhaps putting tool tips over them would help:
https://github.com/diydrones/apm_planner/pull/892
https://github.com/diydrones/apm_planner/pull/890

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the metric display problems on the quick screen and status screen, then review the related proposals in pull requests #892 and #890. Done means metric text remains readable, long titles are not cut off, and the affected metrics provide enough context to identify them.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
accessibility, design, desktop, frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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